Archive for June, 2013

For some reason best known to herself, my mother has a thing about phoning me. She doesn’t. Not ever. Even though she lives in a different country and we have no relatives there, she will never, ever pick up the phone and call me. She seems to think she would be intruding… (at this point […]

I feel like I’ve been knitting this forever. Endless rows, round and round, all the same apart from a couple of increases or decreases every two inches or so. One and on and on…. Vanilla knitting of the best sort really. There are times when I really want a challenge with my knitting, times when […]

Things are on the up here on the hill. Summer has arrived in Switzerland and as usual I am amazed by the fact that after months of complaining about the weather being lousy it takes only two days before people start moaning about the heat….that being said it was steaming hot in the office this […]

A Siblings Together block for Di aka Quiltova…. Easy sewing to ease my way back to the sewing machine! It felt good and as the days go by things are getting sorted out and moving forwards. I think I can almost see the end of the tunnel…..and along with other things, there is the FQR […]

No, not me… ..my garden every year in early June. Not by design, but I confess that I do always tend towards the purples and blues at the garden centre…. Thank you so much to all of you for your recent comments and support. We are OK. No-one is dying, but there is just […]

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